Sheriff: Bodies found in desert are missing couple

2:35 PM,
Nov. 15, 2013

FILE - These file images provided by the San Diego Police Department shows members of the McStay family, who disappeared from their Fallbrook home more than three years ago. Patrick McStay, Joseph McStay's father, told a San Diego-area TV station Friday, Nov. 15, 2013, that he has been informed by investigators from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department that two of the four bodies discovered in shallow graves near Victorville were Joseph McStay and his wife, Summer McStay. (AP Photo/San Diego Police Department, File)

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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - Human remains found in the Southern California desert are believed to be a missing San Diego-area couple and their two young sons, and their deaths appear to be homicides, authorities said Friday.

San Bernardino County Sheriff McMahon confirmed that 40-year-old Joseph McStay and his 43-year-old wife, Summer, were found in shallow graves near Victorville, about 60 miles northeast of Los Angeles. The couple and their children disappeared more than three years ago.

Authorities believe the other remains belong to the McStay children, but they have more work to ...